By all means don't let me yuck your yum. I get that it's a popular genre, that people really like these games, and that's legit.

But it's kinda like, well imagine you're a huge basketball fan and you're really into football too. But over the last 10 years most of ESPN's programming has shifted over to auto racing, which bores you to tears. And hey, that's fine if you like auto racing, but now it's legitimately hard to find any basketball or football content.

Anyway, my point is, it's just a sucks to see the industry dominated by something you don't really care for.

I have a heavily modded wii and I love it. You can play anything on it, it's got everything. The only downside, no hd support. I've been considering looking into some other consoles for that reason.

Honestly, my biggest issue is that Rock Band works so much better in HD. But... I have the giant plastic peripherals that I have, so I'm kinda stuck in this ecosystem now.

I relate strongly to those incentives. Death sucks and I'm not doing it, you can't make me. Also you can't tell me otherwise because my fingers are in my ears, and I can't hear you.

Modern games kinda suck half the time.

I've said this before in other threads, but here I go... What's popular right now is battle royale shooters, and that's a shame, because battle royale shooters all suck. And yes Epic, you are largely to blame, as you make one of the most popular entries in this terrible genre.

If there's any worse game mechanic than frantic inventory management while under fire, I have yet to see it. At least in chess boxing they pause to take their turns between rounds.

Also, winning feels good, I think most people would agree with that. But if the game hosts 100 players with teams of 4, that means 4% of players get to "win". Compare to CoD or Overwatch, where in most game modes 50% of players get to win.

And just as a side note, I don't think Epic has solved anything with some new voice chat system. Because it's not new, discord already exists, steam already has integrated voice chat.

Hey, I wouldn't disagree with that for the most part. But I would still say this is mostly an example of supply and demand.

When supply is so limited that you probably won't be able to acquire all of a resource that you need, it's perfectly rational to attempt to secure as much as you can from the next batch, even if that means prepaying to ensure your access.

Now if that buyer is offering higher prices to secure the resource, it's also perfectly rational for the manufacturer to sell it to them.

We're going to continue to have this problem as long as that relationship remains the same. No legislation or trade deal or tariff or is going to make a meaningful difference. The only way to solve this situation is to increase supply or decrease demand. Well, I suppose you could outlaw LLM training in every country on earth, but good luck with that.

Yeah, the cartel comment implies price fixing or a monopoly or something, which really isn't the case. This is really clearly a case of demand going through the roof (for entirely stupid and irresponsible reasons) and supply not being able to meet it.

But that's what I get for using critical thinking amongst a mob, this is on me.

The Internet user in this stock photo was quoted saying

"suck it!"

7 days to die is an open world zombie survival game. Getting the motorcycle is a slog, it's practically an end game item. But once acquired, it's totally badass.

I mean sure, but this is a plain supply and demand issue.

Sure there is, they aren't doing it again. It was too expensive.

Bobsledding.

"Feel the horses, feel the rhyme, get on up, it's bobsled time"

Google Man+.

No need to spend $6,000,000 up front, there's a nice affordable monthly service fee. Just sign this ULA, some data will be collected from the body.

Underrated comment.

The headline should read:

Despite best efforts and all odds, ISPs find themselves on the right side of history.

Lol, finance (and thus financial reporting) is so braindead.

I'll summarize the whole article: Why did RDDT crash? "Because the stock price went down. Some people sold the stock, so more people sold it, now the price is lower"

Thanks Yahoo finance, this is the journalism we rely on you for...

"Calls for targeting the executive team, their families, homes, and places of work using a variety of online and offline means to harass, disrupt, and harm the individuals and the organizations have become widespread."

I'd argue that this is a non issue that doesn't warrant additional attention, as it only affects less than 1% of the population.

Instead, do more to combat drunk driving, that will have a bigger meaningful effect on the populace.

Perfect response. This gets the message across, "governments of the world, the Internet doesn't need you, you need the Internet".

That sounds like a you problem.

"Our business is so bad and barely viable that it can only survive if you allow us to be overtly unethical", great pitch guys.

I mean that's like arguing "our economy is based on slave plantations! If you abolish the practice, you'll destroy our nation!"

Ok you want something as rich and interesting as skyrim, so I'm assuming open world games are your jam.

There are three games you should play.

1. Red Dead Redemption 2 - it's a Western, the world is very believable, and it makes you feel like you're really part of it. You can follow the main story line, or you could spend your days hunting and fishing. You could travel from town to town playing every poker game you can find. You can conduct train robberies, breed horses, really, there's just a whole lot to do.

2. Cyberpunk 2077 - this is RDR2 but in a scifi dystopian future where the corpos own everything, sex is for sale on every billboard and every ad break, and the only justice is what you can achieve on your own. You've got a ticking time bomb in your brain and no time to fuck around. In this world where you can't trust anyone, somehow what really matters are the friends you make along the way. (seriously)

3. The Witcher 3 - from the same studio that made cyberpunk, the Witcher 3 is truly a masterpiece of storytelling. The one caveat I have for this game is that it starts hard, almost "souls-like". But get past that first rough hour and there is an extremely rich world with a seemingly unending collection of stories to become a part of. This may be the most skyrim-like of the games listed here, but you're in for a treat, because this is a much better game than Skyrim.

All three of these games are gonna make you feel real feelings, they're all actually better at telling stories than Skyrim is. The Witcher 3 in particular loves to live in the grey zone, it'll make you make ethical choices that matter, and you probably won't like any of the possible outcomes. But this is a good thing!

This is state sanctioned mass murder. This is state terror attacks across a national border. This is so unethical and obviously illegal, I don't know what else to say about it.

We need to distance ourselves from Israel. We need to stop giving them weapons. Right now, the taxes I pay go partially to arming them, I am partially responsible, and this is not "ok". I do not want to be doing this, I never wanted this...